There’s a scene in Rambo III. You know what I’m talking about. John Rambo is waging war against the Russians in Afghanistan and has been shot in the side. He’s bunkered down in some cave, hurting, but he’s a survivor. In order to cauterize the wound he takes some gun powder and packs it into […]
When running these Mainly Marathon series of races, you find yourself in the smallest of towns. Some local Chambers of Commerce and townsfolk embrace the runners and throw swag and free museum admissions and even pasta parties (I feel like Dalhart, TX, did a big one the year I was at Dust Bowl, and a […]
Something happened during my sleepless night at the Knights Inn. My back, right where I hurt it in China during my stairs pratfall, exploded into pain. It felt, and I’ve made this reference before, like the voodoo doll in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR51CavZxbc&sns=em Somebody was sticking a pin right into my […]
I got about 47 minutes of sleep. It may have been better to just stay up as I’m feeling a little worse post-alarm. In the plus side, it’s only a five minute drive to the start… so only s five minute back after the finish. Whatever that finish works out to be. It’s a loop […]
It’s 1:11 am on September 2, 2027. My alarm is set for 3:30 so I can go run the first marathon of the inaugural Northwest Series. I’ve never had jet lag insomnia like this before. I’ve done crazed switchback trips, especially when I was working in the UK. But this is something new. This is […]
I shouldn’t have come. As the plane descended into the Seattle Tacoma Airport, the change in air pressure wreaked havoc on my head cold congested sinuses. It felt not like my brain was being drawn and quartered; it felt like it was being drawn and 360ed on multiple axes. As I begin the 4.5 hour […]
I’m sicker than when this week started. But I’m headed up to the Northwest for the latest Mainly Marathons series. Six days, six marathons. Two days in Oregon, two days in Idaho, and two days in Washington. Temperatures are supposedly going to top 100 degrees each day but the race organizers are offering early start […]
So the Bali Marathon released the results on their website… albeit possibly only photographs of the winners on the podium. For the full results, ya know, the ones that I’d be in, and that have the actual times people ran, including the winners, those are only available through their app. A close-up: Sigh. Nothing like […]
I’ve spent the morning (and into the afternoon) uploading photos to finalize the Bali Marathon posts. I’ve then tried to reorder them into some semblance of chronological order. As is typical of the multi-day travel events I do, I compiled an index that you can find under the TOURS menu. Or for expediency sake, you […]
The Return – A Two Day Flight Back: August 29 – August 29 And, no, that’s not a typo. Because of time zones and the international date line, I left on the 29th at 1 AM and I got back to the United States at 7 PM on the 29th. It also means I’ve technically […]